Episode 22: Paper, Ink and Sorrow
Old Gods of Appalachia
Old Gods of Appalachia
4.9 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We journey back in time to the end of the 19th Century in Combe County, North Carolina so that we can gain proper perspective on where that incident with the local magistrate and the Railroad Man sprung from.
CW: Institutional Racism/Brutality. Violent work related death.
Written by Steve Shell
Narrated by Steve Shell
Sound design by Steve Shell
Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell
The voice of Jerry Brotherton: Cory Ryan Forrester
The voice of The Railroad Man: Yuri Lowenthal
Intro Music: “The Land Unknown” (The Hollow Heart Verses) written and performed by Landon Blood
Outro Music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness” written and performed by Those Poor Bastards
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| 0:00.0 | Rusty Quill presents |
| 0:07.0 | Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast |
| 0:13.0 | and therefore may contain material not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:18.0 | Solisner discretion is advised. |
| 0:38.0 | The cold wind pops in the soil of the world. |
| 0:45.0 | No time to rest is weary of all. |
| 0:51.0 | I hear her song in my heart blows off. |
| 0:59.0 | Best not to walk these poor clothes. |
| 1:04.0 | Best not to go roads out of the shadow. |
| 1:09.0 | Best get home home. |
| 1:11.0 | Best not to walk in roads alone. |
| 1:18.0 | The cold wind blows off. |
| 1:25.0 | The cold wind blows off. |
| 1:33.0 | Cone County, North Carolina, 1881. |
| 1:42.0 | Gerald Cornelius Brotherton, |
| 1:45.0 | Newest and youngest appointee to the state prison board was not the smartest, the kindest, |
| 1:51.0 | or the most honorable man on that board, but in all fairness neither was he the dumbest, the ugliest, or the most dishonorable. |
| 1:58.0 | But he was very important. |
| 2:01.0 | Very important indeed because Jerry, as his friends and family called him, |
| 2:06.0 | was charged with overseeing the state prison board of North Carolina's participation in the joining of two worlds. |
| 2:14.0 | He was the board's representative in liaison with the railroad companies regarding the construction of the Swananoa Tunnel. |
| 2:24.0 | This passageway carved through the very breastbone of the Blue Ridge with length of mountains of western North Carolina to the rest of the civilized world. |
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